MEXICO: Ambassador's End

Russia's sleek, smiling Ambassador to Mexico
climbed into the Mexican Army plane. Behind him came his wife and three
members of his staff. In his pocket he carried his new credentials to
the Government of Costa Rica, one of several Latin American Republics
from which he had won recognition of the Soviet Union. Heavily, in the
grey dawn, the plane lifted itself off the ground to 400 feet, then
dived back to earth. There was a flash of blue and red flames. Then, in
the blazing plane, death came to 42-year-old Ambassador Oumansky, his
wife, and three Embassy officials. Nor...